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W. I. CAVANAUGH. .SE'AT FOR 'COBBLE'RS" CHAIRS.

I (Application mm Sept. 17, 1900. (lo Modal.)

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WILLIAM M. CAVANAUGH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SEAT FOR COBBLERS CHAIRS.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,357, dated July 16, 1901.

Application filed September 1'7, 1900. Serial No,30,2l5. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM M. CAVA- NAUGH, a citizen ofthe United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city and State of New York, have invented a certain new and usefullmprovementin Seats for Cobblers Ohairs,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in seats for cobblers chairs of the type employing a depressed center or scoop; and my object is to provide a seat for this purpose which while retaining the comfortable form of a dished seat is much softer and less fatiguing than the seats of this type as new constructed, the improvement resulting in the production of a new article of manufacture ready to be tacked or otherwise secured'in position on the chair and doing away with the necessity and expense of upholstering.

In order that the invention may be better understood, attention is directed to the ac companying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a plan of a round seat embodyingrny presentimprovements; Fig. 2, a crosssectional view thereof; Fig. 3, a plan view of a modified shape of seat, and Fig. 4 a crosssectional view thereof.

Corresponding parts are represented by the same letters of reference.

While I have illustrated in the drawings seats of two forms as embodying my present improvements,it will be understood that other forms may be used to suit the taste or demand of the public without departing from the spirit or scope of my invention. 1

The bottom of the seat is formed of alayer a of leather, canvas, or other suitable, preferably textile, material, on which is placed a layer 1) of hair, moss, cotton, or similar soft substance, a top layer 0, preferably of leather, being employed to form a composite seat. Instead of using a leather top layer any other suitable material for the purpose maybe employed. It will furthermore beunderstood that small pieces or remnants of leather may be used, secured together in any suitablev way, for the making of either the top or bottom layer, or both. The two layers a and c, with the padding material b between the same, having been assembled together, the

seat is suitably tufted and preferably stamped into any desired pattern, although it will be understoodthat the upper surface of the seat may be left entirely plain or that such surface may be stamped into any desired ornamental configuration before the parts are assembled. The free edges of the top and bottom layers a and a, respectively, are now secured in any suitable way to a strong rim (1, made, preferably, of heavy stiif leather, cardboard, or any suitable substance cut or formed into the proper shape. Finally by means of suitable dies the seat is subjected to pressure, so'as to give it the proper dished or scooped shape desired. The pressure which is thus imposed upon the seat may result in the depression or scooping of that portion of the seat inclosed entirely within the rim (1, as shown in Fig. 4; but preferably this pressure also results in the formation of a slight bend at d around the inner edge of the rim, by reason of which the seat will more efiectively retain its shape in use. If desired, after being finished the resulting article may be suitably colored or decorated in any desired way.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a self contained seat for cobblers chairs, consist ing of the stiff flat ring (1, the scooped or dished bottom layer a secured to the under side of the rim,'the dished or scooped top layer 1) arranged substantially parallel with the layer at and secured to the top of the rim, and a padding material between said layers and within the rim, substantially as set forth.

2. As a new article'of manufacture, a seat for cobblers chairs, consisting of a stifi rim, top and bottom layers secured to said rim, and a padding material between said layers, the seat as a whole being scooped or dished and such dished portion extending beyond the inner edge of the rim, substantially as set forth.

' This specification signed and witnessed this 8th day of September, 1900.

" WILLIAM M. CAVANAUGH.

WVitn'esses:

I'HARVEY O. DOBSON, SAMUEL K. KELLOCK. 

